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what was it? [ sighs ] i cant remember. top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. im victor blackwell. were starting this hour with the questions of potential legal jeopardy for former president donald trump and his attorney john eastman. the january 6th committee made its most forceful case yet that trump was responsible for the capitol insurrection. this was their third hearing and the committee revealed evidence that trump and eastman knew that their plot to push th...

acknowledging that americans are, quote, really, really down right now after this strain of the pandemic. and as they struggle with inflation and rising interest rates. we want to welcome our viewers here this the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." we begin with the first public response by former president trump to the damning evidence and testimony presented by the january 6th select committee. cnns jessica schneider is following all t...

centers and churches across the country. the pro abortion group janes revenge is behind many of these targeted attacks. the group is now apparently declaring open season on pro lifers. the attorney general a facing growing criticism for the dojs inaction. and now tom cotton is calling for merrick garland to resign. he said "if youre unwilling to protect americans from these attacks, you should resign." he said "you should resign in any case." now the doj is taking action. theyre now in...

buried in his hometown of san angelo, texas. all of this as a bipartisan group of senators tries to finish writing a bill aimed at reducing gun violence. with us to talk about this, sam brock in vestavia hills, alabama, capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. sam, how are people in that community processing what happened last night? >> i think its very telling, jose next to this church behind me, there is an assisted living facility who said we are just disappointed at the world. we can...

the plan was illegal, or said in in front and trump did not care it was illegal. >> i think that was one of the biggest take-aways that eastman himself knew it was illegal and put it in an email, i want you to do a minor constitutional violation. chuck, back to you, we will build our way back to donald trump if we, can and specifically about his lawyer, that lawyer, john eastman, we even saw the email that he wrote to golden globe, saying, you know, having -- to rudy giuliani, s...

>> the conversation was pretty heated. >> i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp. i dont remember if he said you are a wimp. >> it was a different tone that i had heard him take with the vice president before. >> these pictures of pence never seen before, the vice president being hidden by the secret service in an underground garage under the capitol, reading the presidents tweet that said that pence lacked courage to overturn the election. that tweet helped inflame the...

president trump, partly out of concern it would give the appearance of pressure on the attorney general. politico argues that the first three hearings essentially did that for them, laying out stark evidence that trump and his allying now the election was not rig, but they pushed the big lie anyway. theres new evidence that the department of justice may be growing frustrated against the committee as well. we learned of a strongly worded letter by the doj, in which the department accuse...

talk to us about this new development as it relates to the january 6th committee and this intent to respond to this doj request for transcripts. it was something the department of justice had to ask for twice to this point. >> yeah, had to ask for twice. and you saw in the letter that came yesterday, as hearings were ongoing, that the justice department said that by not having this, it could also be hampering some of the investigations that they are already ongoing with. thats somethin...

justice system. >> bill: the rap sheet a mile ago. girlfriend accused him of assault and he served two stints in prison and under the los angeles d.a. policies he was let off the hook, put on probation. a year later and we have two dead police officers and a town that is reeling. >> dana: on the left side of your screen are the two officers. they were both husbands and fathers. >> bill: they are just two of the more than 150 cops shot in the line of duty this year. at least two dozen s...

a republican can win. skipping over competitive and going red. mayra flores won. the first mexican born woman to serve in the house. >> bill: this is a heavily hispanic district that shares a border 80 miles with mexico. it was created 10 years ago and until now it has been a democratic stronghold. >> dana: what changed? critics are pointing to president bidens border policies. voters witness the crisis firsthand in donna, texas, thousands were held in squall or. >> bill: the worlds ri...